Re: Open Source Organizational Culture

[Storm-Olsen, Marius]

I appreciate that, and fully understand the demand on all the 
contributors, as I track Git and Qt development myself.

Hopefully the openness and access to the raw results across many 
different OSS projects will entice a few to do the survey.

Thanks Rich, appreciate your time!

-- 
.marius


On 4/22/2014 10:36 AM, Rich Bowen wrote:
> I would recommend sending the email to committers@a.o, but be aware that
> Apache participants, due to our visible spot in the open source
> ecosystem, get a *lot*  of surveys and tend to ignore most of them.
>
> --
> Rich Bowen, mobile edition
> rbo...@rcbowen.com 
>
> On Apr 22, 2014 10:02 AM, "Storm-Olsen, Marius"
>  > wrote:
>
> ​
>
> Hi,
>
> As part of the research into a thesis on Open Source Organizational
> Culture, I want to send out a short survey to the Apache
> organization. However, given that the Apache community is so large,
> with numerous individual projects under its umbrella, I wanted to
> check with the community list first; both to seek explicit
> permission for doing so, and to figure out what would be the best
> way to send out such a survey without "spamming" the community.
>
> The survey is short (10-15 minutes), and the results - with raw but
> anonymized data - will be public, and available to the whole Open
> Source community. The larger the participation, the more
> statistically relevant data, and the better we can interpret the
> results across OSS as a whole.
>
> I have included the email I would want to send out below, for your
> consideration.
>
> Sincerely,
> Marius Storm-Olsen
>
> --
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to request your participation in a survey on
>  Open Source Organizational Culture,
> which will provide valuable insight into how Open Source projects
> are run, how their participants act, how they might change going
> forward, and how particular Open Source projects compare with one
> another and with traditional business cultures. The survey will take
> 10-15 minutes to complete.
>
> http://bit.ly/OSOCAS2014
>
>
> Why?
> 
> The survey will be used as part of my thesis on Open Source
> Organizational Culture at BI Norwegian Business School (www.bi.no/en
> , or www.bi.edu ), but in
> true Open Source spirit the raw - but anonymized - results will be
> open for all. So, your Open Source project will be able to massage
> and dissect the results any way you wish, and see how you compare
> with other projects out there.
>
> Up until now, most research in Open Source culture has been based on
> mining mailing lists to find out how people act, who they interact
> with, and how projects organize themselves.
>
> In this research we would rather ask the participants directly about
> how a project is managed and what should change for the project to
> be spectacularly successful.
>
> When?
> -
>
> The survey is open now through May 1st.
>
> Where?
> --
>
> The bit.ly  address brings you to the following survey
>
> https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1587798/osocas-2014
>
> Remember that you can save your progress at any time and come back
> to the survey at a later point when you have time to finish it.
>
> Who are you?
> 
> My name is Marius Storm-Olsen, and I am currently working on a
> thesis on Open Source Organizational Culture. I've been an active
> part of Open Source for years, most notably on the Qt and Git
> projects. Although I have my own experiences to draw on in the
> thesis, they do not qualify for the Open Source community at large,
> hence the survey.
>
> How to help?
> 
> If you want to help, feel free to forward this email to any Open
> Source project you would want to participate the survey. Once you
> have send the invitation, please either send me an email with the
> name of the project, or update the table shown on
>
> https://github.com/mstormo/OSOCAS/wiki
>
>
> I do hope you can participate, and thank you for your consideration!
>
>
> Best regards,
> Marius Storm-Olsen
>

Re: Open Source Organizational Culture

[Rich Bowen]

I would recommend sending the email to committers@a.o, but be aware that
Apache participants, due to our visible spot in the open source ecosystem,
get a *lot*  of surveys and tend to ignore most of them.

-- 
Rich Bowen, mobile edition
rbo...@rcbowen.com
On Apr 22, 2014 10:02 AM, "Storm-Olsen, Marius" <
marius.storm-ol...@student.bi.no> wrote:

>  ​
>  Hi,
>
> As part of the research into a thesis on Open Source Organizational
> Culture, I want to send out a short survey to the Apache organization.
> However, given that the Apache community is so large, with numerous
> individual projects under its umbrella, I wanted to check with the
> community list first; both to seek explicit permission for doing so, and to
> figure out what would be the best way to send out such a survey without
> "spamming" the community.
>
> The survey is short (10-15 minutes), and the results - with raw but
> anonymized data - will be public, and available to the whole Open Source
> community. The larger the participation, the more statistically relevant
> data, and the better we can interpret the results across OSS as a whole.
>
> I have included the email I would want to send out below, for your
> consideration.
>
> Sincerely,
> Marius Storm-Olsen
>
> --
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to request your participation in a survey on
> Open Source Organizational Culture,
> which will provide valuable insight into how Open Source projects are run,
> how their participants act, how they might change going forward, and how
> particular Open Source projects compare with one another and with
> traditional business cultures. The survey will take 10-15 minutes to
> complete.
>
> http://bit.ly/OSOCAS2014
>
>
> Why?
> 
> The survey will be used as part of my thesis on Open Source Organizational
> Culture at BI Norwegian Business School (www.bi.no/en, or www.bi.edu),
> but in true Open Source spirit the raw - but anonymized - results will be
> open for all. So, your Open Source project will be able to massage and
> dissect the results any way you wish, and see how you compare with other
> projects out there.
>
> Up until now, most research in Open Source culture has been based on
> mining mailing lists to find out how people act, who they interact with,
> and how projects organize themselves.
>
> In this research we would rather ask the participants directly about how a
> project is managed and what should change for the project to be
> spectacularly successful.
>
> When?
> -
>
> The survey is open now through May 1st.
>
> Where?
> --
>
> The bit.ly address brings you to the following survey
>
>  https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1587798/osocas-2014
>
> Remember that you can save your progress at any time and come back to the
> survey at a later point when you have time to finish it.
>
> Who are you?
> 
> My name is Marius Storm-Olsen, and I am currently working on a thesis on
> Open Source Organizational Culture. I've been an active part of Open Source
> for years, most notably on the Qt and Git projects. Although I have my own
> experiences to draw on in the thesis, they do not qualify for the Open
> Source community at large, hence the survey.
>
> How to help?
> 
> If you want to help, feel free to forward this email to any Open Source
> project you would want to participate the survey. Once you have send the
> invitation, please either send me an email with the name of the project, or
> update the table shown on
>
> https://github.com/mstormo/OSOCAS/wiki
>
>
> I do hope you can participate, and thank you for your consideration!
>
>
> Best regards,
> Marius Storm-Olsen
>
>